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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2026-01-08 10:19:27 +0000
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2026-01-08 13:33:05 +0100
commit21cbf883d073abbfe09e3924466aa5e0449e7261 (patch)
tree0812cb683f541bcd151bba1d1726198f9123cb18 /net
parentdbf8fe85a16a33d6b6bd01f2bc606fc017771465 (diff)
wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point
struct iw_point has a 32bit hole on 64bit arches. struct iw_point { void __user *pointer; /* Pointer to the data (in user space) */ __u16 length; /* number of fields or size in bytes */ __u16 flags; /* Optional params */ }; Make sure to zero the structure to avoid disclosing 32bits of kernel data to user space. Fixes: 87de87d5e47f ("wext: Dispatch and handle compat ioctls entirely in net/wireless/wext.c") Reported-by: syzbot+bfc7323743ca6dbcc3d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/695f83f3.050a0220.1c677c.0392.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108101927.857582-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c4
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-priv.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index c32a7c6903d5..7b8e94214b07 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,10 @@ static int compat_standard_call(struct net_device *dev,
return ioctl_standard_call(dev, iwr, cmd, info, handler);
iwp_compat = (struct compat_iw_point *) &iwr->u.data;
+
+ /* struct iw_point has a 32bit hole on 64bit arches. */
+ memset(&iwp, 0, sizeof(iwp));
+
iwp.pointer = compat_ptr(iwp_compat->pointer);
iwp.length = iwp_compat->length;
iwp.flags = iwp_compat->flags;
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-priv.c b/net/wireless/wext-priv.c
index 674d426a9d24..37d1147019c2 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-priv.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-priv.c
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ int compat_private_call(struct net_device *dev, struct iwreq *iwr,
struct iw_point iwp;
iwp_compat = (struct compat_iw_point *) &iwr->u.data;
+
+ /* struct iw_point has a 32bit hole on 64bit arches. */
+ memset(&iwp, 0, sizeof(iwp));
+
iwp.pointer = compat_ptr(iwp_compat->pointer);
iwp.length = iwp_compat->length;
iwp.flags = iwp_compat->flags;